At least now, we can be assured that it will continue to fly, and represent the ideals we stand for.
No hammer and sickle in our future, at least for now.
Following ‘Da Flow
First – congrats to Trump! He fought hard for the Win and deserved it.
Following ‘Da Flow led humble me to be the first commenter here (if I recall correctly) to move from the polls to the Betting Odds, and was way ahead of Power Line’s John Hinderaker.
When the Betting Odds became too wide between Trump & Harris I looked for another ‘Indicator’ – Independents Flowed right up to me.
By “Following ‘Da Flow” – for me, it’s one of the ways to communicate with Self. From this:
‘Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree,
intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body.
The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life,
while the latter looks on in detachment’. The Mundaka Upanishad
Sometimes the ‘Da Flow needs to be like the Futaleufú River in Chile for me to know to follow it. Other times it can be as slow as a gentle forest stream. Other times I catch the wrong flow whilst busily devouring the ‘sweet and sour fruits’ about me.
Missed ‘Indicators’: 1) Black male voters. 2) Hispanic voters. First time as an amateur forecaster, so I missed the small ‘Indicators’ that Flowed across my Path—several times or more. Small can add up to Large enough for a Win.
Trump best not waste his second chance…
I took comfort in these words, part of a comment at Ace on election eve, “millions are praying”.
“God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said referring to the assassination attempts on his life.
Sharon+W, I and my family certainly prayed for your country, and ours.
It’s an historic day for many reasons. We have the second person to win the presidency non-consecutively (the other being Glover Cleveland). That’s a feet that was widely believed to be near impossible in modern times for various reasons.
We now have a winner who was ceaselessly prosecuted unjustly for a decade via lawfare, who was the subject of various ‘ops’ and general skulduggery by our Government’s intelligence apparatus, an extremely hostile press who shamelessly lied and misrepresented him and his supporters at every turn, an opponent outraised him by an almost 3 to 1 margin, and (last but certainly not least) survived 2 assasination attempts.
In short, the forces arrayed against him have pretty much thrown everything at him that they could, used every available weapon that they had. And yet despite all that, he has still prevailed.
Beyond everything else, I do wonder if there will be any real reflection by the mainstream media. Will there be any honest attempt to evaluate their failings and irrational demonizations? Will they see the problem with being blatant propagandists in an age of post information scarcity? My initial guess is probably not, but the alternative for them is irrelevance and ultimately unemployment, so perhaps they have a surivival instinct still that will force them to face some hard realities.
Are you ready for a guilty pleasure?
Instapundit linked to this fake video of Biden congratulating Trump on the win, and I couldn’t resist a look. It’s funny and crude, so if you laugh, don’t blame me.
Looks like your forecast of a “Blue Wave” was waaaaay off.
I did great on my forecast, and will be back in 4-years for more. Use mine next time, and you won’t even have to credit humble me…
Laugh of the morning was an essay by Michael Hirsh in Foreign Policy magazine (foreignpolicy.com)
Why Harris Lost
A sample, Kamala was done wrong by Sunny Hostin of “The View” who asked Kamala an easy question.
Oh, the humanity!
I got on their spam list and generally delete on receipt but this one showed the gulf separating the elites and reality.
Well, it looks like former President Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral college decisively, and by large enough margins that it will be very hard for the Democrats to mount all sorts of legal challenges to those numbers and results in each state, or to the Electoral college totals.
Hopefully, the sudden and mysterious appearance, from out of nowhere, of hundreds of thousands of new votes, shifting the victory to Harris, in state after state, is not likely to work this time.
However, I fully expect that the Democrats will put every road block they can in the way of, first, Trump peacefully ascending to the presidency and, then, once in office, placing every other roadblock they can to thwart his attempts to govern and implement his Agenda.
The first thing which comes to mind is the fact that, as the Vice President, Kamala Harris has the Constitutional function and duty of certifying the election results.
Despite the huge controversy the Democrats made of their version of the events surrounding the certification of the election last time, on “January 6th,” and the need for the Constitutional process to proceed along it’s normal course, I can certainly see Harris refusing to certify.
There are many important and decisive actions which President Trump needs to take on his first few days in office, but perhaps none is more important or foundational than quickly getting legislation passed by Congress and signed which will completely reform the Civil Service, one of the chief sources of resistance to Trump’s Agenda last time, and –if he lets them keep their power to do so–sure to play the same role this time.
P.S.–That accomplished, it’s time for a thorough house cleaning of the Executive Branch, to include, among other major targets, the DOJ, the FBI, State Department, the Military, and Intelligence Agencies, with other Executive Agencies and Departments not far behind.
Where will Trump get the many fearless gun-slinging sheriffs he needs to send out to clean up each partisan and corrupt organization?
Next, will it be worth the expenditure of political capital to try to totally disband whole Departments or Agencies like Education, Environmental Protection, ATF or the BLM?
Why did the counting stop?
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At least now, we can be assured that it will continue to fly, and represent the ideals we stand for.
No hammer and sickle in our future, at least for now.
Following ‘Da Flow
First – congrats to Trump! He fought hard for the Win and deserved it.
Following ‘Da Flow led humble me to be the first commenter here (if I recall correctly) to move from the polls to the Betting Odds, and was way ahead of Power Line’s John Hinderaker.
When the Betting Odds became too wide between Trump & Harris I looked for another ‘Indicator’ – Independents Flowed right up to me.
Following ‘Da Flow then led me to another ‘Indicator’ – Harris has a ‘serious woman problem’.
By “Following ‘Da Flow” – for me, it’s one of the ways to communicate with Self. From this:
Sometimes the ‘Da Flow needs to be like the Futaleufú River in Chile for me to know to follow it. Other times it can be as slow as a gentle forest stream. Other times I catch the wrong flow whilst busily devouring the ‘sweet and sour fruits’ about me.
Missed ‘Indicators’: 1) Black male voters. 2) Hispanic voters. First time as an amateur forecaster, so I missed the small ‘Indicators’ that Flowed across my Path—several times or more. Small can add up to Large enough for a Win.
Trump best not waste his second chance…
I took comfort in these words, part of a comment at Ace on election eve, “millions are praying”.
“God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said referring to the assassination attempts on his life.
Said in his victory speech.
My son just sent me this….well said.
https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/1854094491528917431?s=01
Thank you, Americans.
Sharon+W, I and my family certainly prayed for your country, and ours.
It’s an historic day for many reasons. We have the second person to win the presidency non-consecutively (the other being Glover Cleveland). That’s a feet that was widely believed to be near impossible in modern times for various reasons.
We now have a winner who was ceaselessly prosecuted unjustly for a decade via lawfare, who was the subject of various ‘ops’ and general skulduggery by our Government’s intelligence apparatus, an extremely hostile press who shamelessly lied and misrepresented him and his supporters at every turn, an opponent outraised him by an almost 3 to 1 margin, and (last but certainly not least) survived 2 assasination attempts.
In short, the forces arrayed against him have pretty much thrown everything at him that they could, used every available weapon that they had. And yet despite all that, he has still prevailed.
Beyond everything else, I do wonder if there will be any real reflection by the mainstream media. Will there be any honest attempt to evaluate their failings and irrational demonizations? Will they see the problem with being blatant propagandists in an age of post information scarcity? My initial guess is probably not, but the alternative for them is irrelevance and ultimately unemployment, so perhaps they have a surivival instinct still that will force them to face some hard realities.
Are you ready for a guilty pleasure?
Instapundit linked to this fake video of Biden congratulating Trump on the win, and I couldn’t resist a look. It’s funny and crude, so if you laugh, don’t blame me.
Here’s a link: https://x.com/MidnightMitch/status/1854048817076634069
@ Infidel753
Looks like your forecast of a “Blue Wave” was waaaaay off.
I did great on my forecast, and will be back in 4-years for more. Use mine next time, and you won’t even have to credit humble me…
Laugh of the morning was an essay by Michael Hirsh in Foreign Policy magazine (foreignpolicy.com)
A sample, Kamala was done wrong by Sunny Hostin of “The View” who asked Kamala an easy question.
Oh, the humanity!
I got on their spam list and generally delete on receipt but this one showed the gulf separating the elites and reality.
Well, it looks like former President Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral college decisively, and by large enough margins that it will be very hard for the Democrats to mount all sorts of legal challenges to those numbers and results in each state, or to the Electoral college totals.
Hopefully, the sudden and mysterious appearance, from out of nowhere, of hundreds of thousands of new votes, shifting the victory to Harris, in state after state, is not likely to work this time.
However, I fully expect that the Democrats will put every road block they can in the way of, first, Trump peacefully ascending to the presidency and, then, once in office, placing every other roadblock they can to thwart his attempts to govern and implement his Agenda.
The first thing which comes to mind is the fact that, as the Vice President, Kamala Harris has the Constitutional function and duty of certifying the election results.
Despite the huge controversy the Democrats made of their version of the events surrounding the certification of the election last time, on “January 6th,” and the need for the Constitutional process to proceed along it’s normal course, I can certainly see Harris refusing to certify.
There are many important and decisive actions which President Trump needs to take on his first few days in office, but perhaps none is more important or foundational than quickly getting legislation passed by Congress and signed which will completely reform the Civil Service, one of the chief sources of resistance to Trump’s Agenda last time, and –if he lets them keep their power to do so–sure to play the same role this time.
P.S.–That accomplished, it’s time for a thorough house cleaning of the Executive Branch, to include, among other major targets, the DOJ, the FBI, State Department, the Military, and Intelligence Agencies, with other Executive Agencies and Departments not far behind.
Where will Trump get the many fearless gun-slinging sheriffs he needs to send out to clean up each partisan and corrupt organization?
Next, will it be worth the expenditure of political capital to try to totally disband whole Departments or Agencies like Education, Environmental Protection, ATF or the BLM?
Why did the counting stop?